topic GStreamer video loop memory leak in i.MX Processors

GStreamer video loop memory leak

marlonsmith — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 23:28:38 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm using kernel 3.14.28 and gstreamer1.0-plugins-imx_0.12.1 to play video, and I'm looping it using the about-to-finish signal of playbin. When my application receives the signal, it sets the URI for playbin to the same file and the video loops seamlessly.

However, I'm getting a memory leak. The application slowly uses more and more memory until the oom killer closes it. Valgrind says memory is definitely lost but doesn't trace back further than g_malloc.

I've attached a copy of the test program here. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Marlon

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Re: GStreamer video loop memory leak

igorpadykov — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:43:40 GMT

Hi Marlon

gstreamer-imx plugins developed and supported by community, one

could post it on meta-fsl-arm mailing list
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
trac.gateworks.com/wiki/Yocto/gstreamer

Alternatively one can try nxp gstreamer plugins described in

documentation package (Linux Guide, Release Notes) on

http://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=L3.14.28_1.0.0_LINUX_DOCS&Parent_nodeId=1337699481071706174845&Parent_pageTyp…

Best regards
igor
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Re: GStreamer video loop memory leak

marlonsmith — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:11:30 GMT

Thanks for the reply Igor.

I'm curious, why are there two different sets of gstreamer plugins? Is there any advantage to one version over the other?

Marlon